{"id":96,"date":"2012-07-13T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/40plusgamer.wordpress.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-07-13T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T19:29:43","slug":"addicted-to-ebay-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/random-life\/addicted-to-ebay-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Addicted to ebay &#8211; much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn ebay, damn retro games.<\/p>\n<p>Ebay is great and if you are into retro games it&#8217;s often the only way to buy consoles and games.<\/p>\n<p>But ebay needs research it&#8217;s not a place to impulse buy.\u00a0 Unless you are me who has just paid \u00a340+ for a Sega Mega drive with 8 games.\u00a0 It should have been \u00a325 max but I didn&#8217;t do my research. I always steer clear of auctions where the seller sets the initial price, this time I missed that subtle fact and bid on an item where the seller had set the price. There were no other bids and normally I would have noticed it but in my excitement at using ebay I didn&#8217;t \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Oh well in the spirit of ebay I paid up &#8211; it was my fault after all.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson of the day, if you are using ebay, research, research research!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn ebay, damn retro games. Ebay is great and if you are into retro games it&#8217;s often the only way to buy consoles and games. But ebay needs research it&#8217;s not a place to impulse buy.\u00a0 Unless you are me who has just paid \u00a340+ for a Sega Mega drive with 8 games.\u00a0 It should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unshapedadrian.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}